Backup of CRON list and jobs

#!/bin/bash

# Author: haritux.in

# To be ran as root or SUDO

echo Enter the destination directory for backup

read DEST

OUT=`hostname`_crons.`date +%d%m%Y-%H%M%S`

mkdir -p $DEST/$OUT 2&> /dev/null

cd $DEST/$OUT

for i in `ls /var/spool/cron/crontabs/`  ### Debian, Ubuntu

#for i in `ls /var/spool/cron/`  ### Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora

   do 

     grep $i /etc/passwd

     if [ $? = 0 ]; then

        {

        crontab -u $i -l >> $i.cronlist.txt

        }

     fi

   done

cd ..

tar -czf $OUT.tar.gz2 $OUT

rm -rf $OUT

SSH Launcher

#!/bin/bash
echo Select the hostname to SSH
HOSTS=/home/psychotux/scripts/conf/hosts.txt
cat $HOSTS | cut -f3 -d'|'
read host
echo Enter your username number
IP=`grep $host $HOSTS | cut -f2 -d'|'`
ssh "$user"@$IP

Note: /home/psychotux/scripts/conf/hosts.txt will be a file with values HOSTNAME and IP ADDRESS separated by "|"